Mesquite Wine Bottle holder and Napkin Ring

comments (1) February 17th, 2010 in Reader's Gallery

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Mesquite Scraps yield Wine bottle holder and Napkin Ring
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I work primarily in Mesquite wood.  Mesquite is quite time consuming and works best with carbide tooling.  I save all the cutoff scraps as the wood is more than six times more expensive than red oak by the board foot.   I hand out the wine bottle holders and napkin rings as gifts to friends.  The wine bottle holder is a modification of a picture I saw in a magazine, I drew the holder full scale and then ended up "fine tuning" the hole in the holder to result in a bottle that is parallel to the table surface.  A 1 1/4 fostner bit seems to work best,

Napkin rings are bansawed, center hold drilled and edges rounded off on a router table.  Then hand sanded to P220 grit as is the wine holder.   Both pieces are finished in pure tung oil.  Mesquite has such a lovely reddish patina after a few months of exposure to air.


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gaflaugen gaflaugen writes: I've made so many of these things, however they were all straight. Never thought of curveing one. Just goes to show ya, sometimes ya gotta think outside the block. Very cool and much nicer than the straight ones...Dave.
Posted: 7:02 am on February 24th

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